The entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout 'We are all writers!' For everyone is pained with the thought of disap… - Milan Kundera

For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.

إن ألمنا الشخصى ليس اثقل من الألم الذى نعانيه مع الآخر ومن أجل الآخر وفى مكان الآخر؛ ألم يضاعفه الخيال وترجعه وئات الأصداء.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

"Blonde hair and black hair are the two poles of human nature. Black hair signifies virility, courage, frankness, activity, whereas blonde hair symbolises femininity, tenderness, weakness, and passivity. Therefore a blonde is in fact doubly a woman. A princess can only be blonde. That's also why, to be as feminine as possible, women dye their hair yellow- but never black"

"I'm curious about how pigments exercise their influence over the human soul", said Bertlef doubtfully.
"it's not a matter of pigments. A blonde unconsciously adapts herself to her hair. Especially if the blonde is a brunette who dyes her hair yellow. She tries to be faithful to her hair colour and behaves like a fragile creature, a shallow doll, she demands tenderness and service, courtesy and alimony, she's incapable of doing anything for herself, all refinement on the outside and coarseness on the inside. If black hair became a universal fashion, life on this world would clearly be better. It would be the most useful social reform ever achieved."